Estonia has a much smaller population and land area than the United Kingdom, but has more open space. Estonia has a population of 1.3 million people across 45,227 square kilometers, compared to the UK's 66 million people in an area of 242,495 square kilometers. Nearly half of Estonia's land is uninhabited, and the country has large forests covering about 70% of its territory. Estonia also has a unique language that is part of the Finno-Ugric family and lacks gendered pronouns.